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United States Patent | 5,722,679 |
Challande ,   et al. | March 3, 1998 |
The invention relates to an assembly of two retention elements of two boots of a skier on two skis. Each retention element has a retention jaw, a return spring of the jaw, a linkage for transmission of movement between the retention jaw and the spring, an adjustment mechanism acting on the transmission linkage to modify in a differential manner the release threshold of the jaw depending upon which it displaces from one side or the other with respect to its aligned position, a manipulation element adapted to be activated from the other retention element and to control the adjustment mechanism.
Inventors: | Challande; Christian (Cruseilles, FR); Desarmaux; Pierre (Evires, FR); Horn; Hans (Lysse, CH) |
Assignee: | Salomon S.A. (Metz-Tessy, FR) |
Appl. No.: | 559143 |
Filed: | November 17, 1995 |
Nov 21, 1994[FR] | 94 14073 |
Current U.S. Class: | 280/612; 280/630; 280/634; 280/DIG.13 |
Intern'l Class: | A63C 009/088 |
Field of Search: | 280/611,612,613,626,629,630,DIG. 13,634 |
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